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Linnaea’s Café
March 1, 2023
Eat, Featured, Spring 2023 – Issue 39

Meatless Myths: A New Era of Veganism

Fresh, flavorful and fun dishes at these plant-based San Luis Obispo County restaurants.

March 1, 2023
Eat, Featured, Recipes, Spring 2023 – Issue 39

Garden Gems: Recipes

Each of these items is crafted to include fresh seasonal ingredients that borrow from nature’s pantry. While they’re full of wholesome ingredients, these recipes don’t skimp...

Megan, Miho, April, Alyx
March 1, 2023
Eat, Featured, Spring 2023 – Issue 39

Edibles of Edible

Treats for the mind and body at San Luis Obispo County dispensaries.

Beewench Annie Lodens
March 1, 2023
Eat, Featured, Spring 2023 – Issue 39

Free-Range on the Farm

Pasture-raised meat, eggs and broth are staples of BeeWench Farm.

Alisal Ranch BBQ
March 1, 2023
Community, Featured

Alisal Ranch hosts BBQ retreat with wine pairing at Santa Ynez vineyard

A 3-day retreat at Alisal Ranch in Santa Ynez helps get both first timers and seasoned pitmasters ready for a summer behind the grill.

March 1, 2023
Drink, Featured, Spring 2023 – Issue 39

Wildfire Woes

California vineyards may survive the flames but smoke is choking crops in a different way.

Chris Haisma In Bloom
March 1, 2023
Drink, Featured, Recipes, Spring 2023 – Issue 39

Horticulture Happy Hour

The season of colors and new life, spring is the perfect time for a cocktail that celebrates the delicious bounty of Mother Earth.

SaladFreak
March 1, 2023
Eat, Featured, Food, Spring 2023 – Issue 39

Grilled Leeks Mimosa Redux

Adapted for enjoying at home, this is not quite mimosa and not quite gribiche, the other, chunkier, French eggy vinaigrette, but whatever it is, it’s delicious, no matter where o...

Pitch the Journalist Edible SLO
February 2, 2023
Events and Partnerships, Featured

Pitch the Journalist

Sign Up Here We here at Edible Magazine know there is always a story to uncover, and we want to chat with you to discover it. Sign up for a 30-minute, one-on-one session with an Ed...

Wine and Dine Around
January 30, 2023
Events and Partnerships, Featured

Wine and Dine Around

Buy Tickets Here Edible Magazine is a proud show sponsor of Cal Poly Arts, to help keep the arts alive in San Luis Obispo County! Join us for these two very special shows: October ...

January 29, 2023
Events and Partnerships, Featured

Dinner and a Show

Tickets Edible Magazine is a proud sponsor of Cal Poly Arts’ comedy show The Second City Swipes Right: An Incomplete Guide to the Ultimate Date Night, and we want you to join us ...

Cozy Drinks - Featuring KROBAR Craft Distillery
December 21, 2022
Drink, Featured, Winter 2022 - Issue 38

Cozy Winter Drinks Featuring KROBAR Craft Distillery

The holiday season calls for cozy cocktails! These specialty drinks use hand-crafted spirits from KROBAR Craft Distillery, which opened in Paso Robles in 2012.

JUSTIN Winery Michelin Star
December 8, 2022
Eat, Featured

JUSTIN Vineyard & Winery Restaurant Awarded MICHELIN Star, Green Star

JUSTIN Vineyards & Winery is celebrating after The Restaurant at JUSTIN received a coveted MICHELIN Star – one of the culinary industry’s highest recognitions – as a part of ...

5 SLO County Restaurants Received MICHELIN Guide listing
November 18, 2022
Eat, Featured

5 SLO County Restaurants Receive Prestigious MICHELIN Guide Recognition

Congratulations to five SLO County restaurants for friends their recognition in the November 2022 MICHELIN Guide.

Cépage at Paris Valley Road
November 16, 2022
Community, Featured

Celebrate the Season at the Paris Valley Road Holiday Winemaker Dinner

Celebrate the holiday season with an exquisite wine-paired dinner with Winemaker Doug Hidinger. Indulge in seven decedent courses, each perfectly paired with Paris Valley Road wine...

Sheila Kearns Chocolate
November 14, 2022
Eat, Featured

San Luis Obispo Chocolatier Melts Hearts in William Sonoma Holiday Catalogue

Fans of luxury chocolate can now find the creations of San Luis Obispo chocolatier Sheila Kearns at William Sonoma.

Edible SLO Winter Issue Release Party
November 8, 2022
Community, Featured

Join Edible SLO for the Winter Issue Release Party

Join us at Epoch Estate Wines to celebrate. Meet the team behind Edible Magazine, and toast with colleagues and the businesses that graced the pages of this issue.

SLO County represented at Big Sur Food & Wine Festival
November 3, 2022
Community, Featured

SLO County represented at Big Sur Food & Wine Festival

One of California’s most breathtaking natural venues will soon play host to the most mouthwatering cuisine. The annual Big Sur Food and Wine Festival begins Thursday and a dish f...

October 19, 2022
Community, Events and Partnerships, Featured

‘Use My Kitchen, Tell Your Story’ Series Inspires

A partnership between San Luis Obispo County restaurants, wineries and individuals with guest chefs from around the world brought to the area a series of dinners that offered a win...

Best of Edible Sheep
October 12, 2022
Eat, Featured, Winter 2021 – Issue 34

Waste Not, Want Not

How a San Miguel woman’s herd produces food, art and sustainability.

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🌴 Before it becomes a beverage, tea is part of a forest, a watershed, a climate, a community, and a culture. It carries the story of a place and the people who have cared for that place across generations.

🇨🇳 In Yunnan, China (the birthplace of tea) some communities still cultivate tea within ancient forest ecosystems that have sustained both biodiversity and human livelihood for centuries. Spending time in these landscapes not only changes the way we think about tea, but about food, farming, and what it means to live in relationship with the land that nourishes us.

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Monarch Grove Winery’s tasting room has been a fixture of the Grover Beach Amtrak station, greeting riders as they disembarked from the train. Like the butterfly, the tasting room recently migrated away, just around the corner to a larger space. Owners Ercilia Martins and Julie Garcia are excited for this new stage of their business.

After that initial trip, Julie was hooked. She began taking winemaking classes and scouting locations for the right space to open a tasting room at home in Grover Beach. They wanted to apply that same Old World approach characteristic of Portuguese winemaking to their wine. That’s when they landed on Monarch Grove Winery.

Ercilia and Julie purchased Monarch Grove Winery on the first day of 2024, but their passion for wine started long before their acquisition. Ercilia is originally from Portugal and grew up in the countryside, where her family made their own table wine. She brought Julie home for visits in 2019 and 2022. That’s when Julie first began learning about winemaking from Ercilia’s father, Joe Martins. 

“I fell in love with the culture and wine, and how food went with wine,” Julie says. “It’s an art.”

Transformation has been a running theme in both Julie and Ercilia’s lives, so a winery branded with the Monarch butterfly, a creature that undergoes dramatic physical change itself, was a serendipitous fit. 

“The Monarch is a symbol of transformation and this whole experience has been a big transformation in our lives,” says Julie.

Grover Beach was also spot-on. When Ercilia first visited the small beach town, she instantly felt at home; it reminded her so much of Portugal. Grover Beach may not have the renown of San Luis Obispo or Pismo Beach, but that was part of the appeal. 

“There definitely has always been a pull to this community,” says Ercilia. In 2018, the two purchased their first home in Grover Beach and

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